UK: BBC - Farming Today
All rural life is here: daily news of food, farming, the countryside and the environment with analysis and context from the BBC’s experts in the field. Presented by Anna Hill, Miriam O’Reilly, Charlotte Smith and Mark Holdstock, Farming Today goes out every weekday on Radio 4 at 0545 and at 0635 on Saturdays
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| Farming: 29 Jul 10 Happy Pigs | Scientists say they've found a way to measure the happiness of pigs and will use it to glean a pig's own opinion on welfare conditions. | Play |
| Farming: 28 Jul 10 Abbatoir Ad | Anna Hill talks to the advertising watchdog, the ASA, following their ruling that an ad about cruelty in abbatoirs made misleading claims. And, she hears that the group behind it stand by their evidence. | Play |
| Farming: 27 Jul 10 Tractor Theft on the rise | Farmers are warned to be on their guard after being told that thieves are stealing tractors to order. Valuable machinery is being targeted and is often turning up overseas. Sarah Falkingham catches up with Gareth Barlow as he continues his journey to becoming a farmer, and Anna Hill joins the pea harvest in Norfolk. | Play |
| Farming: 26 Jul 10 Deadly Oyster Herpes | The new governement wants your help in shaping its new environment policy to preserve nature and manage biodiversity. Farming Today reports on a deadly virus that is wiping out Pacific Oysters in Whitstable, off the north Kent Coast, and we take a snapshot of what's currently being harvested across the country as the busiest time of the farming calendar begins. | Play |
| Farming: 24 Jul 10 Game, Shooting and the Recession | Charlotte Smith visits the Game Fair in Warwickshire to see whether the game industry is flourishing. | Play |
| Farming: 23 Jul 10 The right to build | Today the axeman arrives as Defra abolishes more organisations, while the government gives rural communities the right to build. | Play |